Weekend Warrior and Other Leisure-Time Physical Activity Patterns in Relation to Positive Self-Rated Health: Racial Differences Among Brazilian University Students
Thiago Ferreira de Sousa, Karine Moraes Pereira, Ysamara dos Santos Conceição, Cristiane dos Santos Matos, Djalma Pereira Santana, Aline de Jesus Santos, Chandra Lima Maciel, Grasiely Faccin Borges · 2026
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Sousa and co-authors ask whether weekend-only exercisers feel as healthy as regular movers, and whether the answer depends on race. Their survey covered 1,100 first-year students at a Brazilian public university. Students were sorted by activity pattern — inactive, insufficiently active, weekend warrior, or regularly active — using world health guidelines, and rated their own health. Analyses ran separately by background: white students and others.
About four in ten students in each group rated their health good or very good. Among white students, weekend-warrior walking and vigorous activity linked to positive ratings, as did regular walking. Among other students, regular walking and vigorous activity at two levels carried the link, while the weekend pattern for walking did not appear. The authors conclude leisure benefits are real but not uniform: pattern and intensity matter differently across groups. One-size activity advice, the study hints, may miss those differences.
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| CREATOR | Thiago Ferreira de Sousa, Karine Moraes Pereira, Ysamara dos Santos Conceição, Cristiane dos Santos Matos, Djalma Pereira Santana, Aline de Jesus Santos, Chandra Lima Maciel, Grasiely Faccin Borges |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |